Department Accolades

Fall 2006

» Congratulations, Dr. Fellows, on your retirement. Thank you for contributing so richly to the LTWR Department from 1995-2006. View the images

Spring 2006

» Congratulations to Associate Professor Dawn Formo, Department of Literature and Writing Studies, who has been selected as the recipient of the 2005-2006 Harry E. Brakebill Distinguished Professor Award. Read more. . .

» This past Fall semester, Brandon Cesmat’s story “When Pigs Fall in Love…” was published in Words on Walls (http://www.wordsonwalls.net/index.html). The San Diego Reader published his essay on migrant workers at home in Jalisco, "A Visit to San Diego" (10/20/05 vol.34 no. 42), and the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Review published a poem of his. Additionally, he has an essay and new poems forthcoming in the journal!

Previous Semesters

» It's been a productive Spring for Brandon Cesmat! Red River Review nominated Brandon Cesmat's poem "New Light" for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. Cesmat's essay on the 2003 fires, "Surviving Paradise," is forthcoming in Being Here: Writing from Southern California published by the University of Nevada Press. California Poets in the Schools (CPITS), the largest artist-residency program in the United States, elected Cesmat president.

In February, Cesmat and CPITS executive director Mary Vradelis co-presented "Double-Teaming Development Standards: Teachers with Resident Writers" at the California Association of Teachers of English (CATE) Conference. In March at the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, Cesmat moderated the panel "Tasks of the Heart: College Creative Writing Instructors in the Community. Cesmat also designed and conducted the first "Family Writing Workshop" for EvenStart at the San Pasqual Indian Reservation in Valley Center.
 

»  Dr. Salah Moukhlis has been busy! He recently published “‘A History of Hopes Postponed’: Women’s Identity and the Postcolonial State in Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman’s Journey toward Independence,” in Research in African Literatures 34.3 (Fall 2003): 66-83.

Dr. Moukhlis chaired a panel entitled  “Gender, Nationalism, and Postcoloniality in Africa” at the Northeast Modern Language Association, held in Pittsburgh, PA, 3-7 March 2004.  He will also present two papers in the African Literature Association Annual Conference which will be held in University of Wisconsin-Madison, 14-18 April 2004: "They Are All the Same: Gender Politics in Nawal el Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero," and "Moroccan and French Hospitalities: The Subversive Poetics of Tahar Ben Jelloun's With Downcast Eyes."
 

»  Dr. Stoddard Holmes’s book Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture (U Michigan Press, Corporealities series) was published in Spring 2004.  She is currently working on three new publishing projects:

• An essay on a Wilkie Collins novel called ““Gender Freak: Enfreaking Gender and Enabling Eros in The Law and the Lady” for the collection Victorian Freaks, edited by Marlene Tromp.  She will present a version of this essay at the Narrative Conference sponsored by UVM in April.

• A co-edited special issue of the journal Literature and Medicine on Narrative, Pain, and Suffering, to be published in Spring 2005.

•  And a coedited collection of essays on Dickens and Disability, for which she and her coeditor hope a proposed session at MLA 2004 in Philadelphia will stir up interest.

Dr. Stoddard Holmes was also elected to a 5-year term on the Executive Committee of the MLA Division on Literature and Science.  Spring, for Dr. Stoddard Holmes, means another group of 1^st and 2^nd year medical students joining her for a preclinical elective on “Reading/Writing/Doctoring” at UCSD medical school. This year she will co-lead the course with Dr. Ron Strauss, a published poet and internal medicine practitioner from the VA hospital. N.B.: Dr. Strauss was an English major!
 

»  Dr. Lance Newman is celebrating his recent publication: "‘Patrons of the World’: Henry Thoreau as Wordsworthian Poet," appearing in The Concord Saunterer N.S. 11 (Winter 2003): 155-172.
 

•  In Concert: Women’s Scholarship in Composition Studies, an anthology of women’s scholarly contributions to the field of composition/rhetoric.  Graduate student Kristina Mesaros is the amazing research assistant for this project.

•  OWLing Between the University and  Neighboring High Schools, a book-length manuscript that considers the impact of the CAPI online writing lab (OWL) on high school writers and university writing consultants.  Thank you graduate students Kristina Mesaros and Erin Maguire for your skill and good humor with this project! 

This summer, Drs. Susie Lan Cassel and Dawn Formo head to Guilin, China to teach at Guangxi Normal University.  They will teach four classes in Asian-American literature; Toni Morrison; race, class, and gender in the US; and writing theory and practice.
 

» Dr. Heather Richardson Hayton is busy at work editing a special issue of the annual Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature devoted to premodern comparative literature.  The annual is scheduled to appear in late summer from the University of Indiana Press and includes nine articles, several book review essays from prominent comparative literature scholars, and an introduction by Dr. Richardson Hayton.  With the help of research assistant Erin Maguire, Dr. Richardson Hayton is also wrapping up the compiling, layout, and indexing phases for her co-edited collection Translating Desire in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, forthcoming in the MRTS series of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University Press.

» Duff Brenna's fifth novel, The Willow Man, will be published in Ireland, UK and Denmark editions by Wynkin de Worde, Galway, Ireland in early 2005.